ThinkPad 600 - CardBus inoperative

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:58:20AM +0100, Andreas Wetzel wrote:
> hi
> 
> I cannot seem to get CardBus cards working with my ThinkPad 600 running
> 6.3-RELEASE. An old 16bit/5V orinoco card works fine. Turning on various
> cardbus/cbb debug options in /boot/loader.conf reveals the following
> messages during boot:
> 
> cbb1: <TI1250 PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0x20300000-0x20300fff at device 2.1 on pci 0
> cbb1: Found memory at 20300000
> cbb1: Secondary bus is 4
> cardbus1: <CardBus bus> on cbb1
> pccard1: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb1
> cbb1: card inserted: event=0x00000000, state=30000920
> cbb1: cbb_power: 3V
> cbb1: cbb_power: 0V
> 
> I know there has been some talk about this on the lists some years ago.
> Some suggested manually setting various hw.pci.link.LNK?.irq options in
> /boot/loader.conf. Others said it had something to do with PCI bus numbering
> and subordinate numbers. I tried tweaking the /boot/loader.conf to no avail,
> but never found a working solution to this problem. Is there anything I can
> do to help get this fixed?
> 
I have ThinkPad 600X.  Try setting hw.cbb.start_memory=0xd8000
in /boot/loader.conf.  I no longer have to use hw.pci.link.*.irq
hacks.  Other than continuing regressions with ACPI suspend, it
feels good under -CURRENT for almost eight years now.  ;)


Cheers,
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Ruslan Ermilov
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